Word: jailings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Party official in Colorado named Mrs. Patricia Blau. Called as a witness in a federal grand-jury investigation in 1949, Mrs. Blau stood on her right to avoid selfincrimination, refused to say whether she knew anything about the party. She was tried for contempt, sentenced to a year in jail...
...ruling might be applied to the grubby crew of witnesses who have defied congressional committees on the same grounds. Some 50 witnesses are currently embroiled with the law and facing jail terms for refusing to answer questions like those put to Mrs. Blau. Among them: Earl Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field. The famed Hollywood Ten, however, relied primarily on the First Amendment (freedom of speech) in their refusal to answer the question: Are you a Communist...
After three days, Singapore came under control again. Scores of demonstrators were in jail, and seething Moslem leaders vowed to carry on the legal fight for Bertha's return to her husband. The Singapore "Nadra Fund" collected $3,000 to keep it going. The riots had cost 17 dead, more than 150 injured...
Earl Browder had gone to jail acting as though he were delighted at the chance to be a martyr. He didn't have $1,500 to put up as bail on a contempt of Congress charge, and, he said contentedly, he didn't know where to find...
...place and raped Joan again, had gone to Leicestershire and there stolen "seven cows, two calves, a cart worth ?4, and 335 sheep." Sir Thomas, it appeared from the records, had also twice looted the Cistercian Abbey of Blessed Mary at Coombe and at least twice escaped from jail...